Footnotes

Nutritional benefits of drinks

Nursing in outpatient child and adolescent mental health

Limerick Mariya, Baldwin Laurence

Self-management of asthma

Fiona Costello

Hats on to beat hospital-acquired infection

Dawn Plummer

Secrets and lies live on in egg donation scheme

Sandra Webster

Supernumerary students don't feel part of the team

Makin Andrew

Fast-track solution needed to boost midwife numbers

Lynn McGill

Mixed messages about how best to feed baby

Sarah Gouge

Family first, work second - a fair system in the long run

The battle is over, but the work is just beginning

Jennifer Doohan

Abolition of community health councils a blow to user participation

Linda Drake

A right riveting read

Chris Mayer, John Marie, Julie Hickey, Sue Orr, Ruth Williams, Philip Brecht, Frances Pickersgill

The best health-related TV and radio

Soap box quiz

Small packages

Jennifer Percival

Magic moments

Christopher Buswell

Ask the experts

Standard life

Daniel Allen

A fight on their hands

Sarah

Dealing with dementia

Petrie Linda

Pay is the key

Stephen Griffin

Nursing a statistical hangover

Buchan James

Now that's what I call wonderful

Jane Hutt

In a perfect world...

Breath of fresh air

Mary Hampshire

Fuelled by anger

All change at the RCN

Community nurse’s year in limbo

New members for a new era

2000 The year of the nurse ?

Graham Scott

NGF heals chronic ulcers in rheumatoid arthritis

Gambling may be physical not psychological

Young smokers at higher risk of anxiety disorders

Non-invasive ventilation results in better outcomes

On the move

Patients in dark on side effects

Ministers urged to back cannabis in pain control

Martell Rael

First three trusts receive CHI seal of approval

Colin Parish

Stop being so insular, nurses told

Comic to ease festive angst

Filipino nurses merit grade D

UKCC backs full prescribing rights

Legal challenge stalls bid to trim misconduct panels

PREP not met by one in 20

New council fees to be set

Nine new consultant nurse posts

10,000 extra staff needed for Scottish plan to work

Nick Lipley

Row erupts on medicare rules

Practice nurses to employ GP

Pay rise may be announced by christmas

Hint of student maternity rights

Ten-point plan to make up nursing staff shortfall

Lipley Nick

Smokers get a new year tip

News in brief

Homes get single room reprieve

Fears that election will hit long-term care timetable

Bill Doult, Graham Scott

It wasn’t all doom and gloom

Pay: a vote winner

Gray Jean